CONCENTRATION CAMPS - After the war began, the Nazis built concentration camps throughout
Europe.
- At these concentration camps, healthy individuals would work as slave
laborers until they dropped dead of exha
Buchenwald
ustion, disease, or malnutrition.
-Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps, was built built
near the town of Weimar in Germany in 1937.
- During its operation, more than 200,000 prisoners worked 12-hour shifts
as slave laborers in nearby factories.
- "Concentration camps were also used as a forced-labor camps, where
thousands of prisoners suffered from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure
and died under horrible and painful labor conditions" (Pomoni, Christina),
- After the war began, the Nazis built concentration camps throughout
Europe.
- At these concentration camps, healthy individuals would work as slave
laborers until they dropped dead of exha
-Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps, was built built
near the town of Weimar in Germany in 1937.
- During its operation, more than 200,000 prisoners worked 12-hour shifts
as slave laborers in nearby factories.
- "Concentration camps were also used as a forced-labor camps, where
thousands of prisoners suffered from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure
and died under horrible and painful labor conditions" (Pomoni, Christina),